Capacity planning
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Is anyone using i-doit for capacity planning in a data center? Most good tools like APC capacity manager, itracs and Avocent Infrastructure Explorer run from $50,000 to $200,000 US for about 100 racks once you start adding up all the licences needed. I have recently installed:
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Rack Monkey - http://flux.org.uk/projects/rackmonkey/ It is is pretty simple but it looks like only one developer and very light on features[[/li]
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RackTables - http://racktables.org/ - more developers (still not many) and more features than Rack Monkey. Can use SNMP to pull some data like switch ports[[/li]
i-doit seems to have many more features and a much nicer gui/presentation. I have just installed on Centos 5.4 and I am starting to add devices, locations … but I have not found any way to report on capacity relating to power or free RU
Can reports be run to show available RU in a rack, room, building or total?
Can i-doit use snmp to pull data from devices like switches or managed CDUs (cabinet power distribution)The workflow is something I am very interested in as it looks like it would make tracking facility MAC (Moves, Adds, Changes) easy to follow.
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Sorry for the holiday delay. Actually you can use reports (separate Report Manager needed) to furfill your capacity planning concerns. But we also think about a more integrated way of capacity planning… With that you could ask i-doit where to place the next server, depending on space, power or climatic concerns.
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